Assistant Professor Ratomir Ganovic, MD., PhD
Belgrade, September 1995
Sterility of married couples is referred to in cases where after a year
of regular sexual intercourses without a contraceptive the pregnancy
does not occur (1).
About 15% of married couples of fertile age is sterile (2).
Though a certain success has been achieved in treatment of sterility of
lately, sterility remains as a very serious and grave medical and
social problem. For many reasons, despite the greater success in
treatment, an upward trend of sterility is evident. This is
particularly true of certain regions in our country where the fall in
natality has such dimensions that it is called “white plague”.
For that reason, there is a great interest in any new method or
product that may facilitate for married couples family planning and
raise natality.
Thus, at the end of last year, a completely new product appeared in our
country - mini microscope “MAYBE BABY” that easily and quickly, on the
basis of the crystallization test of saliva determines fertile and
infertile days in women. It is designed in the form of a lipstick
and is very simple for use. It helps to establish the existence of
ovulation and its exact date .
Otherwise, health institutions use many methods for prediction and
detection of ovulation, such as: measurement of basal body temperature,
cytohormonal examination of vaginal secrete, examination of cervical
mucus, test of crystallization of cervical mucus - FERN TEST,
endometrial biopsy, hormonal blood analyses, celioscopy, etc.
The most frequently used method today is ultrasound examination as a
direct, non-invasive and quick method. However, this method is not a
simple one, it requires the most modern ultrasound devices, great
experience and expertise of doctors as well as a daily health
instituion attendance by the woman in the periovulatory period.
Investigations presented at the Eleventh Jugoslav Symposium on
Fertility and Sterility , held at the Centre Sava in Belgrade, in
September 1994 (3), indicating that the approximate time of ovulation
may be determined by mini microscope “MAYBE BABY” using the saliva
crystallization test, has aroused great interest, both of
gynaecologists and women.
The investigations were carried out at the Sterility Department of the
Clinic of Gynaecology and Obstetrics “Narodni Front” in the period
June-September 1994.
The investigation covered 71 women of generative age.
Every woman was examined at three points of time in the course of her
menstrual cycle, the following been carried out parallel:
- ultrasound folliculometry and sonoendometry ;
- the test of crystallization of cervical mucus - FERN TEST;
- the test of crystallization of saliva using “MAYBE BABY”.
The total of 213 examinations was carried out .
